The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-08-12
SOUTHERN eLEANINos

the diocese of NatchitOches, La, died few
days since.
The Tennessee State fair will be held at
Nashville, commencing September 26 and
continuing to October 1.
The Kentucky Knights of Labor polled
big vote.
A great deal of stock in new furnace at
Gadsden, Ala, was subscribed by the la.
dies of that enterprising little city.
Rev. Josiah Fort, of Fort Station, Tenn,
died a few days ago. He was one of the
! leading Baptist ministers in that section.
The board of trustees of the Alabama
| University for COlored People unanimous
| ly voted to locate the institution at Mont
/ gomery.
| Kentucky holds her State fair at Lexing-
/ ton from August 80 to September 3.
| The Sheffield & Birmingham (Ala) rail
| road is pronounced by competent judges to
! be the finest one in the South. The bridge
/ work and ballast are said to be unexceled.
One remarkable success of the prohibition
movement in Georgia is ascribed by the
| Augusta Chronic le to the fact that it is
| purely moral and economic and has no
| political significance.
| Sol Snowdon, Moses Watkins and Alice
! Cross, residing near HaydensviIle, KY,
were working in a tobacco field few days
! ago when a storm came up. They took
| shelter under a tree, and had been there
but few minutes when bolt of light
| ming flashed down, shattering the tree and
| killing all three instantly.
| The Georgia State fair, at Macon, begins
| October "a and closes November 2.
Ewell Horner, a farmer living near
| Whitesburg, Tenn, committed suicide a
few days ago. He had labOred under a
| slight alteration of mind for some time,
| and being missed by the family, search
was instituted and his body found hanging
| to beam in the barn. Horner was sixty
years old, and leaves family.
A nunlber of prominent politicians are
| under Indictment at Memphis.
New Orleans is making a vigorous effort
to secure the meeting of the National Ed
itorial Association in 1888.
Thirty-five business firms were burned
out at Tampa, Fla, few days ago, Loss,
| S75, 600; insurance, $1,000.
Colonel Edward Robertson, a Congress
man-elect from Louisiana, died a few days
since at Baton Rouge.
Conductor Crawford, of the Louisville &
| Nashville railroad, was killed at Cave City,
Tenn, a few days ago. While he was
leaning out of a car door, his head struck
an obstruction and was fearfully crushed.
Joseph H. Rainey, the well-known col
Ored ex-Congressman of South Carolina,
died at his residence in Georgetown, few
days since, of congestive fever, after an
illness of five days. He leaves a widow
and four children.
While taking supper in a restaurant at
Georgetown, KY, a few nights ago, Tice
Hall was suddenly approached by Eugene
Fitzgerald who shot him'five times, killing
him. No cause is assigned for the killing.
Both are prominently connected. Fitz-
I gerald was sent to jail.
Veechel FIeener and Black Kendall, a
preachers son, had fight at Fleenerville,
KY, few days since. Fleener knocked
Kendall down, and the latter pulled out his
pistol and fired at Fleener twice. Both
shots missed their mark and took effect in
the abdomen and side of Blewett Fleener,
killing him almost instantly. He then
fred another shot, which struck George
Barton, producing flesh wound. Kendall
is in jail.
While Alexander Caruthers and Joseph
Scruggs, both cOlored, were engaged in a
scuf1e at Nashville, Tenn, a few nights
! ago, Caruthers drew his pistol, which
was struck by Scruggs and discharged.
The bullet entered Scrugg's throat, pro-
ducing a fatal wound. Caruthers was ar
rested and lodged in Jail.
Jim Beard and Hugh Greenwood, two
prominent citizens, of GunteI sville, Ala,
quarreled a few nights ago, and Beard
tried to shoot Greenwood with a gun.
Greenwood snatched the weapon from
died in little while. Beard was county
! treasurer.
An accident occurred a few DAYS age
about a mile west Of Greenwood, Va, on
the Newport News & Mississippi Valley
railroad, by which a coach and two sleep
ers of the Louisville express, going east,
were thrown from the track. B. W. Petit
| way, baggagemaster, of Richmond, was
killed and dozen passengers injured.
| OF h.
Farmers Encampment of the States oi
North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and
Tennessee, was held at Spartanburg, s. c..
, last week, under favorable circumstances
| Addresses were made by prominent grange
men of Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Car
olina, Tennessee, and South Carolina
Thursday was Governors day.
Intelligence comes from Manchester,
, Clay County, KY, that a fierce fight oc
CURED at the polls during the voting al
the recent election. The fight was par
ticipated in by a score or more of men, all
having revolvers and bowie knives. Six
men were killed outright, and a number
. badly wounded.
, A terrible domestic tragedy occurred q
} few days ago at Bay st. Louis, Miss
John Dadner, in fit of jealousy, beat his
, wife almost to death with heavy stick
, When his wife, covered with blood, which
head and neck, had fallen apparently life
less at his feet, he picked up pair of scis-
sors and drove one of the blades through
his own heart, causing instant death. Mrs
Ladner's recovery is doubtful.
On the 4th of last May Leroy Deaton
living near Enochville, Rowan County, N
c., was married TO an estimable young
lady of the neighbOrhoOd, and in a few
DAYS thereafter the couple paid a visit *
| fr-ia nj MOnrocryiTla 4xr
On the night following the arrival at the
place some of the young friends of tbs
couple serenaded them after midnight
One of the serenading instruments was
drum, which was thrust through an oper
window of the room in which the couplt
were sleeping and beaten violently. The
shock was too great for the nervous sys
tenn OF the young wife, and she wa
thrown into spasms from fright. Every
effort was made to restore her to her usua
health, but she gradually grew worse unit
a few days ago, when she died.
Earthquakes are still shaking up.
A negress awoke in Murphy, n c., tn
other night to find z snake coiled abou
her neck. She grabbed the snake instea,
of fainting, so the story goes, and with al
her force flung it against the wall an
went to sleep again. In the morning sh
saw the largest dead rattler she had eve
heard of.
United States Marshal Gross returned b
Louisville from Taylor County, KY, re
Gently, where be went with a mandat
from a Federal court to collect railroad
lax. The marshal, although boycotted b.
the people of the county, succeeded in max
ing several hundred levies- He reports
as tough work.
The Alabama State fair will be held a
Montgomery October17-23.
In compliance with the local option Law